Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather was just as unseasonable elsewhere in the U.S. As it got warm where it should have been cold, it got cold where it should have been warm. Storm warnings were flown off the California coast. Fresno had an October freeze for the first time since weather records were begun in 1887; at Sacramento the earliest recorded frost damaged tons of olives...
Garry Essendine (Clifton Webb) is the center-and usually the storm center-of a brittle theatrical group. He has a spare room for attractive women who have "lost their latchkeys"; he loves 'em & leaves 'em-sighing for more; the last thing in his flat he would part with is his mirror; and he insists that he wants quiet but thrives on scenes...
...were amateur warriors on the side. What they wanted was to see themselves in uniform hanging over the clubhouse mantel. What they got was a huge canvas crowded with unnecessary children, reservists and dogs and occasionally glimpses of themselves rushing about with pikes and muskets in a theatrical storm of light. The light, blooming and whirling among the shadows, made them appear incidental-as they were...
...already doing a growing business in radioactive isotopes. Every week, with elaborate precaution, they pull a lead plug from a hole in the massive concrete shield around the Clinton pile. Out comes a graphite bar studded with little aluminum cans of chemicals which have been exposed to the storm of neutrons raging inside the pile. These contain the isotopes for which the world of science is clamoring. Sealed in heavy lead shipping cases, they are rushed to hospitals and research laboratories...
Towards 4:30* on that "first night" afternoon, some 1,200 people made the Martin Beck Theater resonant with that exhilarating precurtain buzz, like leaves before a storm, which has been familiar to theatergoers for 2,500 years. There was plenty to buzz about. There was the exciting fact that The Iceman Cometh was the first new O'Neill play to be produced since Days without End (1934). There was its cryptic title, clumsily poetic, naively sardonic and intensely O'Neillian, which caused one foreboding wag to suggest that a better name would be The Ice Tray Always...